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WILLIAM-SMITH AND mm 1). scenes, or GINOINNATL-OHIO, ASSIG'NORS QHIRAMnnoenns.

12mm Patent No. 105,380, dated July 12', 1810; antedatedJaauary 26,1870.

' IMPROVEMENT m Men-Hon or PRODUCING- PRrcn-cimrmnr sane'rs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters iatentamd making part of thesame.

We, \VILLIAM SMITH and HIRAM 1). Rooms, '6 hot Cincinnati, Hamiltoncounty, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Manifold Writing andPrinting Tablet, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

Onrinventionis particularly designed to facilitate the simultaneousproduction of two or .more copies or impressions of price currents andother periodical publications, whose contents consist in part ofpermanent and in part of. transient matter, such 'as reports or Inconnection with the above we employ as many slips of carbonized ormanifold transfer paper as half the number of desired copies. We alsoemploy either 'anordinary copying-press, or a printing-press, or ahand-stamp, and an agate, or other suitable stylus.

Operation.

The permanent matter, being arranged in form of ordinary type orstereotype, is'printed in thecustomary way, sheet by sheet, on anynumber of slips of manifold paper, which, being bound or united 'in abook, paclqor tablet, so as to registertruly, theoperator theninterposes the proper number of transfer sheets of blackened paper, and,either by a stamp or with the stylus, marks down the quotations, intheir properplaces on the outside page, so as to produce thereby as manyfac smiles as there are leaves, above or be- I low which transfer paperhas been placed.

Another mode of operating our invention consists in taking a packortablet composed of blank sheets of manifold paper, and, havinginterposed a sufficient number of transfer sheets, to imprint thepermanent matter simnltancous'l y upon all the sheets thus treated,

by inserting such tablet'in a'common press having said matter set up intype or stereotype, after which the quotations are added with a stylus.

For the multiplication of price currents our preferred mode of operationis specifically as follows Taking .a suitable book or tablet of manifoldpaper,

all of whoseleaves are similarly printed with pcrmanent matter, we turnover the number of leaves corresponding with the nnmber of copiesdesired, and slip beneath them a piece of card-board. Over the lowestleaf we then place a sheet of carbonized transfer paper, turn down twoleaves, insert another sheet of transfer, again another two leaves, andso on, placing the last sheet of transfer under the top leaf. The

desired report or statement being then printed or writ- .ten, orotherwise impressed upon the top leaf, in one of the modes alreadydescribed, will be found repeated below on as many leaves as havetransfer paper in contact with them.

' By means of our combined printed and written duplication fac simt'lesof the kind spoken of can be mu.-

tiplied with a speed hitherto unattained.

Claim.

We claim As an improved process for producing price current andanalogous statements in manifold, the use of carbonized paper forproducing the transient matter in conncetionwith permanent printedmatter, prepared in tabular form with reference to the said transientmatter, all as hereinbet'ore explained.

In testimony of which invention we have hereunto set our hands.

WM. SMITH. H. 1). ROGERS. Witnesses:

GEo. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN.

